The highest number of baptisms on record were held in 2023, but the number of losses, the third highest year, still a concern.
Tag: membership
Collection of membership data across PNG will help to track church growth, inform strategy and help church leaders make decisions.
ACMS features include efficient membership transfers, tracking interests and non-members, and generating various reports for better decision-making at local church and conference/mission levels.
As AUC president Pastor Terry Johson was travelling the long journey home from the 61st General Conference Session, he reflected on our world wide church and our 22 million baptised brothers and sisters in 214 countries.
"We need to make disciples not converts."
If current growth trends continue, Adventist membership in Papua New Guinea (PNG) will reach 300,000 before the end of 2017. And, thanks largely to PNG, membership across the South Pacific Division is likely to hit the half million mark.
Gander Memorial Church in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, has a problem, but it’s a good one.
To stop the millennial exodus, we as a church need to stop and listen to them.
